Who Helps You More, Your Therapist Or Psychiatrist Or...?

[Suzetig]

For me it's my therapist that has proven most helpful. She's a trauma specialist and is wise, caring and challenging all at once - she pushes me when need be and holds me still when I need that. Her consistency is helping me to recognise and accept care from other people in my life and I'm so grateful to her. This place has helped me so much too, partly in helping me figure out the relationship stuff I didn't learn in childhood and partly in helping me realise how normal my "odd" reactions are for someone who has experienced trauma.

 

[Changing4Best]

Wow, so many responses! A lot of good info here, and viewpoints. I agree about this forum, it has been very helpful to me too. I think my first Therapist was very helpful also. She's the one that helped me to shed my abusive boyfriend and also to leave my homeless way of life and get my own place. I'd say she helped me the most. However, this site has helped me almost as much, because of the way it helps me see that I am not alone, that what is happening to me and has happened to me are parts of the whole of PTSD.

 

[Pencil]

I think that you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has had endured quite a bit of suffering due to PTSD and has been able to heal without therapy at all.

That is, processing on your own.....NOT possible for those of us severe enough to be diagnosed with PTSD. This is the one thing that a therapist is essential for.

I DO find this scary. I often feel that I have had to reduce my life and all of me to the bare minimum to just get by. I often feel that my life consists of going through the motions and marking time.

 

[Casper1018]

My T, for sure! I have severe attachment problems and we have worked very hard at establishing a relationship. We text and e-mail nearly every day on top of sessions twice a week. I don't know what I would do without her!!

 

[anthony]

I would say others... being here, in life, books... I've received the least overall help from psychician's. In fact... I would say more harm has come from psychiatrists, specifically the lax attitude of throwing medication at me instead of actually trying to help me get my head right.

 

[Tanishq]

Here. The forum. Others,too

Tried psychiatrist 2 years ago and I know how it ended, the worst. It worsened my situation.

 

[holdenmonty]

For me it's a real tough one because my phycologist gives me my meds that helps out a lot and would be in a worse place without them, I wouldn't be where I am today without my therapist, and I wouldn't be where I am today without the forums. It might be a weird comparision but I kind of see it as a shotgun effect. You shoot the buck shot and each little fragment doesn't do much on it's own but together are much more powerful. Or maybe the rope ilustration might be better one strand by itself is alright but three strands woven together make almost unbreakable.